Success and Failure of Dieting

1. Success. Focus on details of what is being eaten rather than negative self talk. Foucusing on details of ach meal, people get bored less easily and are able to restrain diet (6)
4. Reductionist, free will, culture bias, gender bias (4)
5. Asked some participants not to thinka bout white bear, but ring bell if they did. Found those not thinking about bear rang bell more often. (6, 2, 2)
6. If trying not to eat results in overeating, how do anoerxics starve themselves? (5)
7. Gave 135 participants 22 jelly bans one at a time. As bean dispensed, information about it flashed onto a screen. One group saw general info, other group saw specific flavour details. Participants got bored with experiment faster if saw general info (6, 2, 2)

2. Participants organised into restraint and non-restraint groups. Restrianed groups sub-divied into high or low disinhibition. Disinhibited restrained group used more thought supressing than other groups. Showed rebound effects after. (7, 2, 2)
3. Failure. People consciously try to eat less/ restrain inkate but it causes overeating. (9, 6)
8. However effects in research not particulary huge (6)
9. Randomly assigned 27 obese women to either: diet group/exercise group/nontreatment group. At 4 weeks, food intake assessed before and after snack intake. At 6 weeks, foor intake assed under stressful conditions. Women ate the most in diet condition. (6, 3, 6)
10. Failure. When we deny/supress certain thoughts, it makes them more prominent (6)

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